Effort Vs Outcome Quotes

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

If you could have won, you should have.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.